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The application of maritime law to drug smuggling cases, including the use of statelessness as a basis for interdiction.
The present legal picture is contested: the Administration asserts executive Article II war and self‑defense powers — amplified by a continuing 2001 AUMF thread in public debate — to justify strikes o...
For decades U.S. maritime counternarcotics posture rested on law‑enforcement statutes that empower the Coast Guard to stop, board, seize and arrest suspected drug traffickers at sea—using non‑lethal m...
law enforcement operations on foreign soil are constrained first and foremost by basic principles of state sovereignty and consent: absent host‑nation consent, enforcement activity is presumptively un...
The Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA) empowers U.S. law‑enforcement authorities—primarily the Coast Guard—to board, search, seize vessels, arrest persons, and prosecute drug offenses on the hi...
EU naval campaigns in the Mediterranean and repeated U.S. interdictions of unregistered vessels have pushed the practical boundaries of when states may board, seize, and even destroy stateless smuggli...